Harvey Korman Quotes
But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
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There are things I can accomplish in the studio via manipulation on the computer or some kind of effect that are nearly impossible to do live. On the flip side, there are some things that happen live that can't be pulled off in the studio.
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Idling is not my strong suit.
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I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.
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In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
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If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.
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You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.
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My directing style has changed over the years. I allow things to breathe a lot more.
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A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.
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I meet a lot of people when I do stand-up in the Middle East, and I don't know any terrorists, yet on TV and in the movies, 9 out of 10 are depicted as terrorists.
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Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.
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URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.
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But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us.
